Sources

List of sources I have used in my studies:

Little Women, Louisa May Alcott, Penguin Classics edition with Elaine Showalter´s introduction

Days of Henry Thoreau by Walter Harding

Self-Reliancy by Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Little women 150 years edition

Little Men 150 years edition

Jo´s Boys 150 years edition

​Jo marries Goethe, Dr Bhaer as Louisa May Alcott´s representation of the Goethean ideal in Little Women by Meghan Armknecht

Singing Mignon´s song, German Literature and Culture in March Trilogy by Christine Doyle

The Sorrows of young Werther by J.W.Goethe 

Wilhelm Meister´s Apprenticeship by J.W. Goethe

The cosmopolitan project of Louisa May Alcott by Laura Dassow Walls

Wide Wide World by Susan Warner 

Wedding Marches, Louisa May Alcott, Marriage and the Newness of Little Women by Daniel Shealy  

Louisa May Alcott and the Transcendentalist Tradition by Roberta Pardi-Oláh

Louisa May Alcott, The woman behind little women by Harriet Reisen 

Finding private Suhre: On the trail of Louisa May Alcott´s "Prince of patients" by John Matteson

Louisa May Alcott, her life, letters and journals by Ednah Cheney

Margaret Fuller, The Dial

Little Women 150/ Under the umbrella 

Facts and Fiction in Little Women by Jamie Lynn Burgess

Thoreau, Alcott and the mythic west by Fred Erisman 

Rose in Bloom by Louisa May Alcott 

Rose in Bloom, Endings and Beginnings (Louisa May Alcott is my passion) 

Getting to know the principal characters in moods (Louisa May Alcott is my passion)  

Long fatal love chase by Louisa May Alcott 

Moods by Louisa May Alcott 

Work story of experience by Louisa May Alcott 

"Fun forever?" Toys, Games and Plays in Louisa May Alcott´s Little Women by Anne. K. Phillips

19th century German immigration to America by Tina Marie Schrader ​​
 
Contradictions Between Thought and Action as a Source of Tension in Louisa M. Alcott’s Little Women by Jane Mattisson  

Louisa May Alcott and Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué 

Why Friedrich is better for Jo than Laurie is 

"Little Women," Laurie, and the Argument for Racebent Casting 

Highschool crush: On literary longing and mis-direct lust 
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Why Laurie and Jo don´t end up together

Not Just Passionlessness- Alternate Views of Sexuality in Victorian America By Kelsey Shober

Little Women official movie guide (published by Absram books 2020) 

Jo March makes a choice by Kailey Rhone

​Life lessons from Goethe by Adan Kirch, New Yorker, 2016 issue  

​Stella: A Play for Lovers (1776) (2018) English translation of Goethe's novel (Peter Land and Susan Gustafson) 
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Immortality, Milan Kundera, 1988

Did the real Amy March get together with the real life laurie letters between May Alcott and Alf Whitman (Louisa May Alcott is my passion)  

J.W Goethe, Sorrows of young Werther, Finnish translation (nuoren Wertherin kärsimykset) Translation by Markku Mannila, otava, 1992

Goethe´s correspondence with a child, Bettina Von Armin, 1837

Goethe and Bettina (from Goethetc)